Goodbye Tony

Your life has ended Tony.
Pain no more.
Your life has ended Tony.
Peace for evermore.

Happy Memories live on.
healing those you love
It will take a while
Best to start one day at a time

So long Tony
and Goodbye



Farewell to Graham Hogarth's Dad (Graham is my brother -in-law, originally from Sydney Australia)

Tofa ia, Lau Susuga Peniamina Aumaga

Lauga saunia e le Susuga Peniamina Aumaga, Faifeau EFKS Moata’a
I le Sauniga o le Maliu o Vavae Toma(lo'u tama), 8 Me, 2004


Mataio 25 fuaiupu 34, o iai upu ou te fa’atauaina:
“O maia, outou ua fa’amanuiaina e o outou Tama, ia fai mo outou tofi le malo ua saunia mo outou, talu ona fa’avaeina le lalolagi”. O le manatu autu O le aso lenei e pei ona fa’atulagaina i le Tusi Faitauaso e fa’apea, “ E le o upu ma gutu, a e o le fa’amaoni ma galuega lelei”. Na ou taofi i le molimau muamua a le fanau upu nei, “o Vavae, e le se tagata e fiafia e tautala so’o”, E le o upu ma gutu, a o le fa’amaoni ma galuega lelei efai.

Tou te le iloa ‘ea ua maliu le ali’i tele o Vaivase i le aso nei?
Tou te le iloa ea ua maliu le ali’i tele o le Ekalesia Fa’apotopotoga Kerisiano i Samoa, i le aso nei?
Tou te le iloa ea ua maliu le ali’i tele o le Malo Tuto’atasi o Samoa i le aso nei?

O tagata Isaraelu, e le fa’atulagaina o latou taua i ni tamaoaiga tusa lava po o le a le tele. E le faavasegaina fo’i tagata taua o Israelu i le tele o tupe ma le ‘oa latou te maua. E fa’atulagaina tagata taua i o latou aoga. Tusa pe tele le tamaoaiga ma maoa’e le poto, a le aoga, e le tagi ai seisi pe a o’o i lona toe taimi. Na o tagata aoga e tagi ai tagata o le Ali’i. E tagi ai le lagi ina ua maliu le ali’i tele. E tagi ai le agaga ina ua maliu le alii Tele.
Na tagi Tavita ina ua logo atu le tala ua maliu Api’neru. E le aiga. E le o sana tama. E le o sana fitafita. O le ta’ita’i Au a Saulo. E afua i se a ona tagi? E le se so’otaga tau toto. A e ina ua logo ia Tavita le tala. Ona tagi ai lea o Tavita. E avatu iai mea’ai ae fai mai lana tali, ia foa’i e le Ali’i mea ia fa’aopoopoina pe a ou ai sina mea ao le i alu ifo le la. Aso atoa o fa’aoge le Tupu. Se ia po fa’atoa pa’i i se mea’ai, ma inu.
Leaga ua alu le tagata aoga.

O le aoga o le tagata lea o Apineru, Ina ua vevesi ma pisi le tai i le va o aiga e lua o Saulo ma Tavita, O ia lea, e ui ina ua tau mo Saulo, na ia lagona i lona loto, O Tavita O se tagata ua filifilia e le Atua. O le ala lea na ia tu’ua ai le au tau a Saulo a e alu e saili le filemu ia Tavita. Na ia osi le feagaiga ma fa’afeso’ota’i aiga ua fetaua’i ona o le sailiga o le pule ma le nofoali’i. O le galuega lelei lea na faia e Apineru. E fa’amaoni lona loto i le Atua. Ina ua alu atu ia Tavita, ua fa’afetai Tavita ma toe auina atu o ia ma le saogalemu. E ui ina felamata’i i aso e tele, a e ina ua iloa e Tavita le fa’amaoni ma le galuega ua ia faia, na lagona lona fiafia. O le tagata aoga, lea ua oti. Ua to lana tu palapala ma lana fa’alupega. Fai mai Tavita, Isaraelu, O le Ali’i tele, ua maliu i le aso nei. Tagata aoga.

Leaga o Apineru lea. Na tafa ai ata lelei ma to ai malama o le Malo Tu’ufa’atasi o Isaraelu i lalo o le ta’ita’iga a Tavita, ina ua maopoopo ia te ia ituaiga e sefulu ma le lua.
A o le mea na fa’amaite e Apineru. O le Ali’i Tele. O le uiga fo’i lea o uiga o le fetalaiga a le Ali’i o Iesu i le Feagaiga Fou: “ Pe a afio mai le Atali’i o l e tagata i Lona mamalu, ma nofoi i lona nofoali’i, ina ia fa’amasino tagata lelei ma tagata fa’ale-lelei; o mamoe ma ‘oti. O fea lou nofoaga? E te taumatau pe ete agavale?

E fua le mea e te nofo ai i lou aoga. E le fuaina i ni au tupe ma sou tamao’aiga. E le fuaina i sou poto ma sou atamai. E fua i lou aoga. Pe sa fa’apefea ona e soifua ma o tatou ola.

O Vavae, o se tagata aoga. O le ali’i tele o Vaivase. O le ali’i tele o le Ekalesia Fa’apotopotoga Kerisiano i Samoa. O le ali’i tele o le pasefika. O le ali’i tele o le Malo. E molimau ana galuega. E molimau le Tusi Pese a le EFKS. E molimau lana pine taualoa. E molimau ona tulaga.

Ua maliu i le aso le ali’i tele, e fai ma a’oa’oga mo i tatou, E le ole tatou malosi, a o le Ali’i. Ina ia o’o mai fo’i o tatou taimi, a o ta’uaogaina i tatou i lo tatou ola mo le Atua.


Amuia Vavae. Amuia le fanau ma le aiga…Amuia Vaivase ua latou maua se tama ta’uaogaina

Ulufale maia i le fiafia o lou ali’i. ..ma ia fai mou tofi le Malo ua saunia, talu mai le amataga o le lalolagi.
Ua maliu le Ali’i Tele…AMENE.


Faafetai Peniamina. E manatua pea le talalelei na e folafola, a'oa'o mai ai le finagalo o Iesu. Ia manuia lau malaga.

Meripa

Understanding World Politics

My research on International Relations theories reveal that
1. realist and leberalist approaches failed to predict the end of the Cold War in 1989.
2. neo-realist and neo-liberalist approaches failed to predict September 11.

A study of alternative theoretical approaches viz a viz Marxism, Critical theories, Postmodernism, Feminism, Constructionism can help identify many exclusive features of the mainstream theories. Their different skills of analysis and interpretion provide comprehensive ways to look at and gain an understanding of world politics.

At this point in time in the history of International Relations, we do not, have a total understanding of world politics. The presence of alternative approaches, can add to the mainstream approaches and give us a more eclectic and more inclusive understanding of world politics.

Meripa Weir - 02 October 2006